# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amina-shah
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:30:03.892Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amina-shah"
name: "Amina Shah"
slug: "amina-shah"
description: "Amina Maxwell-Hudson was a British anthologiser of Sufi stories and folk tales, and was for many years the Chairperson of the College of Storytellers. She was the sister of the Sufi writers Idries Shah and Omar Ali-Shah, and the daughter of Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah and Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah, a Scottish woman. Her nephew is the travel writer and documentary filmmaker Tahir Shah; her nieces are Safia Shah and the writer and documentary filmmaker Saira Shah."
tagline: "Author, poet, storyteller (1918-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Amina_Shah_(writer_and_storyteller).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-10-31"
deathDate: "2014-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.18
  momentum:             17.65794278758369
  historical:           3.091002666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina_Shah"
    title: "Amina Shah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%85%E0%A8%AE%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BE_%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B9"
    title: "ਅਮੀਨਾ ਸ਼ਾਹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85"
    title: "Аміна Шах"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4746352"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations